..In conclusion, children with more severe injuries, lower pre-injury adaptive abilities and lower socio-economic status are at greatest risk of long-term neurobehavioural impairment, even several years post-injury...

Social competence at 6 months following childhood traumatic brain injury

..Processing speed, younger age, and male gender also contributed to social outcomes. Further follow-up is required to track the recovery of social skills and the changing influences of cognition, brain, and environment over time...

Adaptive ability, behavior and quality of life pre and posttraumatic brain injury in childhood

..While behavioral problems are also noted, there is ongoing debate about the contribution of preinjury factors in this domain. Few studies have attempted to measure the impact of these preinjury functions on postinjury behavior...

..Contrary to previously held views of the "plasticity" of the young brain, recent research suggests that such early insults may have a profound impact on development. To date, these suggestions remain largely untested...

..In conclusion, QOL in adult survivors of childhood TBI is better than expected and closely associated with both injury and noninjury factors, most consistently with the individual's perception of their level of independence...

Do children really recover better? Neurobehavioural plasticity after early brain insult

Understanding predictors of functional recovery and outcome 30 months following early childhood head injury

Vicki A AndersonDepartment of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Vic, AustraliaNeuropsychology 20:42-57. 2006

..In conclusion, children with more severe injuries and lower preinjury adaptive abilities, and whose families are coping poorly, are at greatest risk of long-term impairment in day-to-day skills, even several years postinjury...

..With the exception of attentional control, skills emerging at time of insult were found to be more vulnerable to disruption than those previously established, supporting the 'early vulnerability' model for EBI...

Measuring psychosocial risk in families caring for a child with cancer: the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT2.0)

..0 in an Australian pediatric oncology sample. Further aims included examining mothers' and fathers' PAT2.0 scores, change in psychosocial risk over time, and the relationship between treatment intensity and psychosocial risk...

..Everyday memory ratings were related to a wider range of neuropsychological measures in this group. Findings are encouraging in terms of the properties of the OMQ-PF and suggest further development of the scale is warranted...

Parental mental health and early social-emotional development of children born very preterm

..The aims of this study were to describe the mental health of parents of children born very preterm and examine relations between parental mental health and early social-emotional development in very preterm and term born children...

..While a dose-response relationship for severity was evident for the young group, this was not always the case for the old group. Significant predictors of outcome included both severity and acute intellectual function...

Longitudinal study of the neurodevelopmental characteristics of treated and untreated nonsyndromic craniosynostosis in infancy

..However, children with no detectable, or mild WMAs, also displayed cognitive problems, indicating that neuropsychological functioning in children with ETPKU is determined by a complex interaction of biological and environmental factors...

Attention and social functioning in children with malformations of cortical development and stroke

..In addition, complex attention processes were associated with social function. The findings emphasize the reciprocity between attention, behavior and social outcomes, and the vulnerability of social function following EBI...

Neurodevelopmental functioning of infants with untreated single-suture craniosynostosis during early infancy

..While cognitive deficits are frequently reported in psychotic disorders, it is unclear whether these impairments predate the onset of illness and to what extent they are predictive of later transition to psychosis...

..The results suggest that screening for ASD may help identify parents at increased risk of persistent traumatic stress symptoms who could benefit from preventative, evidence-based psychosocial interventions...

Relationships between cognitive and behavioral measures of executive function in children with brain disease

..This study investigated the long-term effects of craniosynostosis on intelligence in children and adolescents with syndromic and nonsyndromic disorders who had undergone cranial expansion surgery during infancy...

Impairments of attention following treatment with cranial irradiation and chemotherapy in children

..Children treated with chemotherapy alone demonstrated generally intact attentional skills. However, this group did record an increasing number of attentional lapses over time on tasks tapping sustained attention skills...

The localization and lateralization of memory deficits in children with temporal lobe epilepsy

..The distribution of psychosocial risk in parents of children undergoing surgery for a congenital heart disease is consistent with that described for parents of children with other serious paediatric diagnoses. ..

Attentional control ten years post-childhood traumatic brain injury: the impact of lesion presence, location, and severity in adolescence and early adulthood

..To build a descriptive literature base of investigated and identified gender differences in the psychosocial experience of parents of children with cancer, in order to guide future research in this area...

Neuropsychological outcome after acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: impact of age at illness onset

..Lesion location and laterality were not predictive of social outcome, and nor was social risk. In contrast, presence of disability (seizures) and family function were shown to contribute to aspects of social function...

The Nine Box Maze Test: A measure of spatial memory development in children

..A recent treatment, known as 'immunoablation' has been used in severe cases of adult MS with promising results. However, due to its high risk and reservation for severe or refractory cases, its full potential remains unknown...

..These findings do not suggest that DP causes developmental problems, but DP could be a marker for risk of developmental problems. Screening for developmental concerns in infants with DP is therefore important. ..

Parenting behavior is associated with the early neurobehavioral development of very preterm children

..Also, AAI did not predict the behavioral symptoms of inattention present in this sample as indicated by parental report. It may be that AAI only influences development following severe CHI in which there is permanent cerebral pathology...

Planning, problem-solving and organizational abilities in children following traumatic brain injury: intervention techniques

..Specifically, deficits were most evident on timed tasks where speed of processing was an integral component. Difficulties persisted to at least 6 months postinjury and so may lead to cumulative deficits over time...

Olfactory identification dysfunction, aggression and impulsivity in war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder

..Results indicated that the severe group performed most poorly on language tasks. It is suggested that linguistic evaluation is an important component of follow up at least for the severe head injured population...

..In conclusion, the RCF-OSS is a useful adjunct to traditional accuracy scoring procedures, and the normative data indicates that organizational skills may not consolidate until middle to late adolescence...

..Olfactory identification deficits and their relationship to negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia were examined in patients with recent-onset psychosis, the majority of whom were neuroleptic naive...

Can we manage sport related concussion in children the same as in adults?